"Find some old-fashioned national art manifesto about how grand and noble some nation's national art is. Pass that text through a chain-letter of online translation devices, French, Korean, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Hindi, Xhosa, what-have-you. The resulting manifesto will reflect the inherently globalized generative art scene."

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Digital technologies are successful tools in contemporary design. Their ascent, however, is a continuation of well-tried and reliable analog processes. No matter whether paper or digital approach — the designer organizes elements by hand. She devises aesthetic rules for her work and plays around with them until she achieves a final product.
At this point, generative design comes in and sets out to generate products through digital tools programmed by the designer. The individual impulse triggers a chain reaction of processes depending on a set of mathematical rules. This is a useful feature for designers since it serves as a conceptional pathfinder towards the final product.

Code is the computer-internal binary system brought into a form humans are capable of understanding. Code becomes more and more accessible and can be used without specialist training. Ever-faster processors facilitate sets of rules that could not be rendered in any analog way. These rules establish the visual and conceptual independence of the medium.

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A generative book that presents programmed images by various artists. Each print in process will be calculated individually – which makes every single book unique.

Artists, designers and developers are encouraged to program image creating applications, which will be published as four-page spreads in the book.

These programs visualize internet data-streams or display self-generated content. They are able to save continuously changing images on demand.

Every application will run through an auto-generative printing program which generates and compiles all images and metatexts into a printable book.

The printing will be done digitally due to continuously changing data.

The final result will be an unique art book; a fusion of various digital artworks in printed form.

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input

external input e.g., rss feed, stock exchange quotations, webcam, ...

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internet data / self-generated data, non-periodic algorithms

ALGORITHM

programs of various authors being interpreted and displayed in resulting imagery